MUTATO NOMINE DE TE FABULA NARRATUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1856, 4 December 1884, Page 2

MUTATO NOMINE DE TE FABULA NARRATUR.

To the Editor, Sir—Mr Pupwoi'th, in a letter t°' your contemporary, displays an amount of indignation which. does him credit, at some naughty young competitor for hiving broken an important rule of the Horticultural Society by competing for a prize with a plant that had not been in his possession for a period of six weeks previous to the show, Ido not know if the young fellow was aware at the time if the heinous crime he was' committing,, but Messrs "Pair Play" and Papworth's letters must have been a somewhat rud,e awakening-, .- My-ad-vice to that young njan is. ■" do not lose heart, but ...go on exhibiting;, you and your family .have been known to us a little longer than tlio two gentlemen who attack :you so viciously, and you, like the rest .of our untravelled youth may make a ; imistake,but I am sure you would not do wrong intentionally," aud since I am in the humor for giving advice, Mr Papwoi'th, I have a word for your private ear. A somewhat antiquated book aays something about routoving '• the beam, &c.," perhaps you will recollect the rest. Now when you : grew those beautiful ououmbers in your hot hoiißß apd gave then to Airs ijeetbam a.-day or two before the show, Hid it k not ooQur- to I you that you were aiding and abettiftg an 'infringe-, mentof the very rule which you now so eloquently exclaim against young Mark Wilton for infringing? Nay,' when you found your identical.cuoumberg smiling sadly at. you. from their stage, ity the cold show-room, did they not oause a chord to be struok in your' honest and indignant bogom 1 Why, then, oh Papwortb;. did you not \.express- a just indignation at an irregularity and a gross infringement of the Society 8 rules i" Why did you-screen the strong and expose tho weak 1 Why did you yourself.do that for which you denounced tho lad Wilton ? Besides, it was not your fault that you wepe not a judge at the last show—it was your misfortune. Had the committee accepted your kind offer you would have been able to have judged your own cucumbers,' Papwoith 1 oh, Papworth! you are a parallelogram. I am &o. Play Pair,